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Backset  v. t.  To plow again, in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring. (Western U.S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... functions performed by the skin are embarrassed by cold, tight clothing, or lack of cleanliness, the nutritive changes cannot properly take place throughout the body, and consequently the digestive functions are embarrassed, as the revolutions of a water-wheel are impeded by the backset of the water. When food is not thoroughly masticated, it is not properly mixed with saliva of the glands of the mouth, and is not prepared for digestion by the ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



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